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The Only Thing We Learn From History Is That People Do Not Learn From History.

Imagine a world in which political norms have broken down. Senators use bad faith arguments to block the government from getting anything done. An autocrat rigs elections and gives himself complete control over the government. Even stranger, many voters subscribe to the autocrat’s personality cult and agree that he should have absolute control.

Welcome to Rome in the first century B.C.
Sad but true. Alas.
helenS · 36-40, F
@Questionable That was posted before the US elections.
owmybum · 61-69, M
helenS · 36-40, F
@owmybum History is stuck in an infinite loop.
Jacko1971 · 51-55, M
@owmybum it's a wobbly wobbly timely wimey sort of thing.
nowic2 · 61-69, M
Clearly some things never really change. Life is all about cycles. Do you think we will ever really learn?
helenS · 36-40, F
@nowic2 2000 years, and not much appears to have changed... 😐️
nowic2 · 61-69, M
@helenS true, slow learners. I live in hope.
Mugin16 · 46-50, M
@helenS @nowic2 Read Barbara Tuchman's book "Folly at March", which is exactly about this issue.
Mugin16 · 46-50, M
You forgot to mention civil wars, uprisings by peasants who cannot pay their debts anymore, generals who start wars of aggression to conquer foreign lands and to become rich, former magistrates who got massively into debt to get elected into office (read: bribed the voters) are taxing the population of the provinces to the hilt to pay their debts, slave revolts, and a governing system developed and designed for a city-state breaking down as the city-state has turned into an empire that is now ruling the Mediterrean.
Also known as the human condition.
@helenS Nope! As intelligent as we like to think that we are. We are doomed to make the same mistakes over and over again. So sad! ☹️
helenS · 36-40, F
@allsfinebime2 Some beautiful things don't change either. 🌸
@helenS That's very true. And thank goodness for that. 🌻
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
It happened again in the middle of the last century.
Dshhh · M
i got to forward this to a freind
Amy says
"those that do not study history, or doomed to repeat it.--- those that DO study history are doomed to watch it repeat"
PSuss1 · 51-55, M
Couldn't ever happen again ...surely? 🤔
PSuss1 · 51-55, M
@helenS oh yes, thanks, you had me worried for a minute there 🤪🤪🤪
helenS · 36-40, F
@PSuss1 What! An open-minded man like you, worried?
PSuss1 · 51-55, M
@helenS only one person on this planet worries me to be fair, he's very special 🍑
ninjavu · 51-55, M
Impossible! Must be a work of fiction!
therighttothink50 · 56-60, M
Now the leftist technocrats have computer vote rigging, ballot harvesting and massive illegal alien voting to rig elections.
helenS · 36-40, F
@therighttothink50 I am strongly against computer-aided voting. It's prone to hacker attacks.
therighttothink50 · 56-60, M
@helenS [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB52NEPJxUs&list=PLTZmo5v-mt0nVb88wWvXoSHTnObHGxifY]
TexChik · F
@therighttothink50 Hahahaha I loved that movie, all those old SNL guys really made it big...all they needed was Akroyd.
beckyromero · 36-40, F
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkXaj_XzeV0]
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@helenS

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl_gO3uOds8]
helenS · 36-40, F
@beckyromero Striking parallelisms. Seeing one's own future in a history book is pretty scary. 😐️
ninjavu · 51-55, M
@beckyromero "I don't even talk about Article II." (Talking about Article II.) 😂

 
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